Indefinite Delivery Contract HQ085926DF157

Defense Unicorns, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, has been awarded a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery contract by the Missile Defense Agency with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. This contract, known as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, represents a comprehensive 10-year procurement vehicle designed to procure an advanced, multi-domain defense system capable of detecting, tracking, intercepting, and neutralizing air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats across all phases of flight from ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles. The contract encompasses research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization efforts, with work to be performed across multiple locations and security classification levels. The award was made on December 29, 2025, following a pre-solicitation notice posted on May 21, 2025, with final solicitation released in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2025, utilizing full and open competition with no set-aside designations.

Under the SHIELD IDIQ structure, individual task and delivery orders will be issued across multiple North American Industry Classification System codes using various contract types, with Defense Unicorns competing alongside other qualified contractors determined to be responsible sources with technically acceptable proposals and fair and reasonable pricing. The contract vehicle is structured to support both classified and unclassified programs leveraging advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open systems architectures to address critical national defense priorities. As of the contract award date, no specific task orders have been identified, as this represents a new enterprise-wide contracting mechanism designed to enable the Missile Defense Agency and other Department of Defense entities to rapidly issue orders under a flexible IDIQ structure for homeland defense capabilities.